It's Thursday January 9th. Welcome to Market Foolery. I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today for Motley Fool 1, Jason Moser.

And... Just you, baby. Just you and me. We're going to have to get it done.

On this busy Thursday, which is the official start of earning season, we will talk retail.

We're also going to dip into the fool mailbag, answer a couple of questions, and we got a we're getting a lot of responses on the smart home voices, so we will...

That's a great way to kick off the year I mean it's it's nice to get

I mean you ask questions every once in a while that really sort of tap into the

listener base and that's obviously one yes you know a lot of passion about

this I see a tweet earlier today from Carl Quintanilla that said the earning season, like I guess

Alcoa is officially going to be kind of handing over the rains.

I think that earning season now officially will be marked. handing over the the reins. Really?

Earning season now officially will be marked by J.P. Morgan's earnings?

Really?

I saw a tweet now I'm not sure if he was just kidding.

We're going to do some research on this.

It didn't seem like it was sarcastic.

Because as I've been saying this week

it's really all Alcoa has left. Well yeah it's no longer a Dow stock so I feel like

let's just let Alcoa continue to be the official kickoff to earning season but if they're

going to pass the torch then that was his point was now that it's no longer a

Dow component they were passing that torch onto a little bit more relevant

company out there. I don't know we'll have to investigate that.

All right, well we're not going to talk about alcohol or J.P. Morgan, we are going to start

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